Paul, at 08:31 on Jun 14 1995, you wrote to rowan crowe...

rc> I thought for a moment you had decided to display all characters, 
rc> including so-called soft CRs, in case they were part of the text (in a 
rc> foreign character set). ;-)

PE> That's EXACTLY what I had decided to do, believing what I had read
PE> in NET_DEV, that the practice of using x'8d' was completely dead.

Not in FMail, it ain't.

PE> It appears that it is dead, but not yet buried.  So now I only
PE> display x'8d' if the sender uses SOT/EOT, since that explicitly
PE> disallows x'8d' as a formatting character.  BFN.  Paul.

But I use SOT/EOT, and DON'T want to see the 0x8d character.  How about a
new msged.cfg switch then, say "switch display0x8b off" ?

Regards, Bill
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